by jakeowensby | Jun 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
I was eleven years old when Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Apollo 11 lunar module onto the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969. My mother and I watched Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” on a black and white TV in a cheap motel room. Mom had spent most of her...
by jakeowensby | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
My first lessons in hope came from my mother, and for years I completely misunderstood them. When life got hard, Mom would say, “Tomorrow is another day.” She said it when other kids bullied me at school because of my speech impediment, when we were broke and on the...
by jakeowensby | Jun 16, 2017 | Proper 6 A, Romans 5:1-8
The apostle Paul tells us that hope does not disappoint. Some will find this naive. After all, he was beaten and stoned. Slandered, shipwrecked, snake-bit, and imprisoned. Eventually, the Romans beheaded him. But once you know more of the story, it actually gets...
